Obama uses Sandy as political pawn!? Obama surrogate tells climate event Sandy represents 'new normal': 'Sandy amplified the need to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions' | Climate Depot

Kevin Knobloch, who represented the Obama campaign as a private citizen and is president of the Union of Concerned Scientists: 'We're at a place where we have to focus on both mitigation — reducing greenhouse gas emissions — and adaptation — starting to move our vital infrastructure out of harm's way. We know this is going to be our future. This is our new normal'

Ralph Hall: Time to rein in the EPA | JunkScience.com

In the most recent review of EPA particulate matter standards—which provide the basis for numerous billion-dollar regulations — 25 individuals were chosen to peer review the results. Of those 25 reviewers, 21 were cited in footnotes as sources for the document they were supposed to be independently reviewing. The chair of the review panel was footnoted a total of 85 times. And while the EPA has its hand-picked scientists reviewing their own work, experts from the private sector are almost entirely excluded from this process. This is hardly a recipe for independent scientific analysis

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Running Faster on the Climate Treadmill

...The Newsweek cover above comes from January, 1996. The Bllomberg Business week cover is current.

Efforts to motivate change in energy policy based on linking disasters to human-caused climate change have a long history. How has that worked out?

Hurricane Sandy’s ‘Unprecedented’ Storm Surge | Watts Up With That?

Funny thing… Hurricane Sandy’s unprecedented storm surge was likely surpassed in the New England hurricanes of 1635 and 1638. From 1635 through 1954, New England was hit by at least five hurricanes producing greater than 3 m storm surges in New England. Analysis of sediment cores led to the conclusion “that at least seven hurricanes of intensity sufficient to produce storm surge capable of overtopping the barrier beach (>3 m) at Succotash Marsh have made landfall in southern New England in the past 700 yr.” All seven of those storms occurred prior to 1960.